Recommend a Nine Inch Nails pedal

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Recommend a Nine Inch Nails pedal

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Tell me about a pedal that will sound like an amalgam of various songs from the best of Reznor's catalog. It can be a multi-effect pedal, but you will lose points if you recommend more than one unit, unless you can post an example of 2 pedge working together to validate your point. I'm being intentionally vague about what specific effect I want to reproduce, but I have faith in your imaginations. if it can make the pssht-squuck sounds in "Closer" then you're on the right track, but that's not a deal-maker/breaker.
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Wmd Geiger Counter.
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Inconuucl wrote:Wmd Geiger Counter.
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Take a distortion pedal. Record it direct. Process the shit out of it. Reamp it if you want it less synth like.
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Inconuucl wrote:Wmd Geiger Counter.
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Geiger Counter, yeah. Also what gardenofthedead said if you don't feel like spending any moniez.
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Other than the Geiger Counter, I'd say the Holowon Umiom for ugly synthetic distortion with a wide filter sweep.
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I used to totally nail the guitar tone in "Physical (You're So)" with my Super Puzzle.
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Re: Recommend a Nine Inch Nails pedal

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That's a pretty loaded question. Yeah, Geiger Counter is definitely up there, also the Hexe Bitcrusher could do a lot of it too with the telephone filter and the modulation. A metal-distortion into a slight bit crush is the perfect NIN digitized crunch.
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Re: Recommend a Nine Inch Nails pedal

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Aside from the Geiger Counter, which I describe to people who ask about it as "Nine Inch Nails in a box", I've always thought of the ZVex Machine or Death by Audio Octave Clang when I hear those bass lines.
But, just to be a pain, and since ILF is the definition of fuzz excess, I'm going to say:
Boss LS-2(or other paralell looper) Loop 1:Geiger Counter, Loop 2:Octave Clang
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Re: Recommend a Nine Inch Nails pedal

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Nord Modular/Micro Modular used as effects box
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Re: Recommend a Nine Inch Nails pedal

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From what I saw from interviews and pictures, he uses a lot of DAW processing, mainly native instruments reaktor, especially on his new guitar sounds and how to destroy angels. But he also has a palace of modular, pedals, and he owns like every single piece of Metasonix gear :lol: I wish :grumpy: I figure he combines a lot of different things to get unique sounds.
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